The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sports reporter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.
Frank Crawford
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz -
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley -
I was on the subway sitting on a newspaper, and a guy comes up and says, ‘Are you reading that?’ I didn’t know what to say, so I just said, `Yes,’ stood up, turned the page and sat down again.
David Brenner -
Reading someone else’s newspaper is like sleeping with someone else’s wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
Malcolm Bradbury -
Every good journalist has a novel in him – which is an excellent place for it.
Russell Lynes -
As a humour columnist, I don’t do witty off the cuff remarks; it’s like throwing five-pound notes into the gutter.
Keith Waterhouse -
I daren’t take a holiday. If I stop writing my column for a month it might affect the circulation of the newspaper – or it might not.
Arthur Brisbane -
A daily column is a grave two inches wide and twenty inches deep.
Don Marquis -
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall, it’s a paragraph in my column.
Don Marquis